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This rich volume introduces the inspiring neologism visioning to make the hyphen between Israel-Palestine a sign of bonding and correlation instead of its common perception as a sign of distance and separation. Chapter-by-chapter it brilliantly demonstrates Gil Pasternak's conviction that the arts matter to the future of Israelis and Palestinians - a conviction which I share. * Mieke Bal, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands * This rich and innovative volume draws on a wide range of aesthetic sources to show how cultural products can review and reframe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We can then see that visual art, broadly understood, not only engages past trauma but also opens up possibilities for a more peaceful future. * Roland Bleiker, University of Queensland, Australia * The title of this remarkable collection telegraphs its fundamental message. A hyphenated state (in the sense of an actual condition rather than a political entity) already exists in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. This state is a fragmented jigsaw puzzle of cooperation and conflict, inequality and co-presence that eludes all one-sided nationalist narratives, most notably the long-imagined two state solution which now belongs in the dustbin of history. Focusing on cultural products (images, texts, exhibitions, films, and stories), Visioning Israel-Palestine provides an account of contemporary experiences and encounters that promise to assemble this puzzle as a compellingly legible mosaic. * W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago, USA *

This rich volume introduces the inspiring neologism visioning to make the hyphen between Israel-Palestine a sign of bonding and correlation instead of its common perception as a sign of distance and separation. Chapter-by-chapter it brilliantly demonstrates Gil Pasternak's conviction that the arts matter to the future of Israelis and Palestinians - a conviction which I share. * Mieke Bal, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands * This innovative volume draws on a wide range of aesthetic sources to show how cultural products can review and reframe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We can then see that visual art, broadly understood, not only engages past trauma but also opens up possibilities for a more peaceful future. * Roland Bleiker, University of Queensland, Australia * The title of this remarkable collection telegraphs its fundamental message. A hyphenated state (in the sense of an actual condition rather than a political entity) already exists in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. This state is a fragmented jigsaw puzzle of cooperation and conflict, inequality and co-presence that eludes all one-sided nationalist narratives, most notably the long-imagined two state solution which now belongs in the dustbin of history. Focusing on cultural products (images, texts, exhibitions, films, and stories), Visioning Israel-Palestine provides an account of contemporary experiences and encounters that promise to assemble this puzzle as a compellingly legible mosaic. * W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago, USA *

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Gil Pasternak is Reader in Social and Political Photographic Cultures in the Photographic History Research Centre (PHRC) at De Montfort University, United Kingdom. A member of the advisory board for the journals Photography & Culture and Jewish Film & New Media, earlier in life he worked as a photojournalist, photography archivist and fine art photographer.

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